Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-07-05
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Exchanges.
Tradition tells Us that many years ago
young man, disappointed in love, leaped
from the high cliff of rocks back OF Dr. Nc
Lanes residence, and overlooking Decker's
creek, at Morgantown, into the creek below
and drowned himself The distance was
nearly a hundred feet. Ever afterwards
the place was called Lovers Leap" In
later years, while firing a salute with a
brass cannon, in MorgantOwn, a man was
accidentally killed by the premature dis
charge of the gun. The cannon was there
upon hauled 10 the top of Lovers Leap"
and hurled into the creek, where 1t sank
into the water and mud out of sight. 1t is
still supposed TO rest on the bottom vi the
noted stream, buried in the sand and mud.
The work now progressing. on the West
Virginia Railroad is fast obliteratlng the
Lovers Leap" and few more blasts
will tear it to pieces. Many Old men In
Morgantown aud many who have gone
West and elsewhere, remember how they
used to play, when they were boys, over,
under and about the Lovers Leap"
But before the onward march OF progress
and improvement il is now blotted out,
hut its traditions will long live in years to
come.
Burglars went through the Cain House,
at s.. Marys, Il few days ago.
Work on the Black Bottle railroad at
Morgantown is moving along rapidly.
Phihppi is making herculean effort to
get the NJ. f. Seminary located there.
John Cartright, Of Marion county, is i'm
proving, and will soon have recovered from
the wounds inflicted by the :ssSssin's bull
let.
Two barges containing some forty-five
thousand bushels of wheat, destined for
Liverpool, via Newport News, have been
uulOaded ut Huntington in the past few
days.
About ten thousand pounds of wool was
shipped from MorgautOwn last week.
As much went ont from Little Falls and
various amounts from other points in the
county.
r. Brennan & Co, of Clarksburg, have
contracted to furnish 80 tons OF coal daily
W the Camden oil works OF Parkersburg.
The amount 10 be paid for the coal is $780,
900 per year.
The Board of Regents of the State Uni
versity ut MorgantOwn have purchased, At
a cost of 81, 30, three meadow lots OPP
posite the University, that will be used for
drill and recreation purposes.
The Elizabeth Times says more timber
has passed down the Little Kanawha river
this spriD. than ever before known N one
season, and yet there is no end 10 the
amount of timber to come out.
Some parties have on several occasions
lately placed small piles Of rock on the
Buckh nnOn railroad track, and a few days
ago the engine was damaged by running
over lot of rocks thus placed.
Since the destruction of the elevator at
Huntington, all grain has to be transferred
from the barges to the cars by hand. In
this way only about sixteen thousand
bushels can be handled per day.
There has been proposition made by
some gentlemen Of Clarksburg to construct
telephone line from Weston to Sutton,
along the w. 4 G.. b. Turnpike, II the
people along the route will help with rea-
sOnable subscriptions.
Last Wednesday night Charley Crow,
of Great Bend, Jackson county, suffered a
loss of several hundred dollars from an in
cendiary fire. which burned his corn crib
and contents, and an adjoining old build
ing, containing plOws, new wagon, etc.
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escaped.
A Wood county man, while digging
post holes nenr ParkerSburg recently, dug
up POI cOntaininga large sum OF money
in gold and silver The finder would not
tell the amount of his discovered, but he
has since bought good farm and paid for
it. 1t is supposed the money was buried
during the war by some soldiers.
The heirs OF MI POstlewait, OF Wetzel
county, have becn paid -, 600 for the accl-
dent on the B. * .. in ONO last winter,
that resulted IN the death of Mr.. Postle-
wait. Ii will be remembered that Postle-
wait WAS on his way ont West with his
.amily when the collision occurred near
Tiffin, killing all of the family except Mrs.
Postlewait and one child, who were lett
penniless, all their money being in notes
on Mr.. PoStlewait's person, and the car
burning, was destroyed.
An attempt was made to outrage the
person of Miss Annie Reed, of Grafton, on
the steamer Fashion, last week, just below
Middleport. She awOke in her stateroom
about l a. M, and was Mortified to find two
negroes in the room with her. One grabbed
her feet and the other her throat, hat not
! before she gave loud shrek for help.
When the officers got to her she was 10
spasms of fright, and her assailants had
fled. DR.. Rathburn, of MiddlepOrt, WIS
called and resuScitated her. Two darkey
boys who got OFT the boat at NiiddlepOrt are
suspected.
On Sunday last Virginia Robinson. col